Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
The first time I had to sit down and write operating principles for two AI agents working on the same codebase, I had a moment of genuine déjà vu. It felt exactly like the early Foodora days. Too much speed, too little structure, and someone on the team absolutely certain they knew the fastest route even when the road wasn't built yet. Except this time the team is Claude and Codex. And I'm working